From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Wed Jun 20 03:51:49 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6009F1022CFC for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1FC84F0B for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id A46321022CF6; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AD81022CF5 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [18.222.6.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.soaustin.net", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4898384F09 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from lonesome.com (unknown [18.188.142.31]) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9ACE724933; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:46 +0000 From: Mark Linimon To: Emmanuel Vadot Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <20180620035146.GC29485@lonesome.com> References: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:51:49 -0000 So now that Kyle has volunteered to look after A20, I'd like to continue this thread: On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:32:48PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > I want to remove A31 support for FreeBSD 12: > - My A31 board (BananapiM1) just died today after a long time of being > my arm32 reference board. Is someone willing to pick up A31, or should we still phase it out? > - I don't want the code to stay like the old 32 bits rockchip or > amlogic code that can't even boot nowadays. I think this would be a good time to drop support for things that have gotten into this state. Do you have a complete list? Does anyone else have any objections? fwiw, I've updated the wiki to note that A20 will continue to be supported, and A10 probably will be. But there are still a number of boards listed there as "supported" that probably have not seen updates for years (specificially, some of the development boards). I'd rather let people know what we recommend for new arm users. I expect RPi, Pine64, OrangePi, and BeagleBone to be in that list ... are the CubieBoard and WandBoard still popular? What do people think? mcl